Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
This has been a crazily chaotic day. I got thrown off my stride by my morning swim (phase 2 in physical therapy for my knee, now that I’m off the perpetual motion machine), and just couldn’t catch up anymore. Throw in a few unexpected demands on my time and —
Continue readingAs of this morning, the Washington Post earnestly tells us that, with one bomber in custody and one dead, we still have no idea why they did it. We know that they’re brothers and that they come from Chechnya, a region that’s been having unnamed troubles leading to terrorism. One
Continue readingNow that the police have dismissed as a suspect the Saudi man originally being questioned, the perpetrator behind the atrocity at the Boston Marathon is swathed in mystery. Although Muslims distinguished themselves in a disgusting way by celebrating the bombing, no group has stepped forward to take responsibility for what
Continue readingWe know what happened yesterday: carnage. What we’re still waiting to hear is why yesterday happened. As the comments at this blog show, and as reading the news proves, each side of America’s political aisle is lining up the “I told you so’s.” On the right, we believe that the
Continue readingIn almost every area of my life, I’m a procrastinator. The exception to that rule is taxes. I never wait until the last minute with my taxes, so I got them off some time ago (and very painful it was too). The result was that I didn’t even think of
Continue readingBecause I’m now a semi-official journalist, I’ve been working hard to write up-to-the-minute posts about the horrible Boston Marathon bombing. Here’s the latest Mr. Conservative post, which I was able to write following my Twitter feed. It’s been substantially updated since I wrote it, so it’s (a) under Katie Kieffer’s
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